On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 02:32:23PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/14/2010 02:22 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> But in either case, for users who care about their Freedom, both Flash
>> and Javascript are real threats, because even if you use a Free Software
>> implementation of the language, the code run in each web-page will
>> usually be 100% proprietary.
>>
>
> By your logic (since any language implementation can be used to write 
> proprietary software) gcc is dangerous.

Nope. Ghostscript might be dangerous, as it may run untrusted (postscript)
code.

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